Live Auction 10448Old Master & British Paintings
Follower of Cesare da Sesto
Lot 475

Follower of Cesare da Sesto

Salome with the head of Saint John the Baptist

Closed30 April 2015

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GBP 17,500

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Follower of Cesare da Sesto
Salome with the head of Saint John the Baptist
oil on canvas
52½ x 30¾ in. (133.4 x 78 cm.)

(Possibly) Volterra Collection, Florence.
del Bene Family, Florence.

Specialist note

The present lot is an early version of the composition by Cesare da Sesto in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna. Marco Carminati (op. cit., p. 210) does not exclude the possibility that this may be the picture made by Ambrogio Figino (1553-1608) for the church of San Giovanni alle Case Rotte in Milan. The del Bene family, to whose collection the picture belonged, is an historic Florentine name, whose ancestry dates back to the renowned poet and friend of Petrarch, Sennuccio del Bene (1275-1349).